Since Natsumi-san would be coming to visit us today, I was in the kitchen and checking the things that I had bought for today. Confirming one more time that I did not forget anything and put the beer cans in the fridge which Ai got using her vampire powers, I was ready to make dinner.
Ai was cleaning the house and was looking really enthusiastic while doing so. She looked like a complete clean freak when I saw her draping the cloth on her face and her hair along with gloves in her hands. Right now, she was cleaning the bedroom.
I decided to make unagi which is grilled eel along with rice. Along with that, I am making pickled vegetables and miso soup. This was a dinner Natsumi-san really loved eating and since she would be coming here for the first time, I decided to make this for her. I had made this sometimes before when I visited Natsumi-san after her little trips out of the country which she did not really have much of after she became a teacher here.
Unagi sure was expensive to buy but it is also worth every single yen one spends on it because if cooked right, it tastes amazing. Rolling up my sleeves and wearing the apron, I started cooking the food. The soft sizzling of the unagi filled the kitchen and it sounded so satisfying to hear.
Time passed and the food was getting ready and right when I got everything done, I heard the doorbell ring. Seeing the time, it was already around eight so Natsumi-san came just at the right time.
I washed my hands and cleaned them on my apron. Done with that, I saw Ai standing in front of the front door fidgeting with her hands. I placed my hand on her shoulder as she faced me and I gave her a little smile. She clenched her fist and held my hand and I let her do that.
I stepped forward and put my hand on the doorknob and twisted it opening the door.
"Welcome, Na-"
I stopped mid-sentence seeing no one was there. I leaned forward peering my head out of the door and looked left and right but I did not see the trace of anyone there. What I did see as I looked down was a little letter. Strange.
"Kazu-kun, is sensei there?" Ai asked me and I looked at her and shook my head picking up the letter. "What is the letter for?" she asked tilting her head.
"I don’t know but it is addressed to me," I said looking at my name on it.
Ai snatched the letter from my hand and started sniffing it and I felt her face darken and I saw a scary murderous aura coming out of her. She turned her head looking at me and her eyes looked dark and dead inside. She had a smile on her face but it looked more scary than pleasant right now.
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"It is from a female," she said and held her nails closer to my neck. "Kazu-kun, you got a letter from a female but I don’t remember you talking to anyone. Are you perhaps talking to a girl behind my back? This is bad, Kazu-kun should not be a bad boy. Bad boys need to be punished. Cheaters should die but I don’t wan-"
"Hey, hey Ai listen to me. I am not talking to anyone behind your back so get that absurd idea out of your head. There is no way I will do that," I said interrupting her and pushing her hands away but she did not change her expression. "Let me read the content of the letter first. It is more important right now."
Ai handed me the letter and I opened it and started reading and my hands tightened on the paper.
"Shiba Kazuki,
I am pretty sure you don’t know us but we know full well about you. We even know that you are hiding somewhere really well but looks like we have luck on our side.
I hope Kawazuki Natsumi rings a bell.
The poor woman was unlucky enough to encounter us and she is our hostage right now. If you don’t want her to die or get hurt, come to the biggest warehouse at the Tokyo port. We won’t wait for long since vampires don’t have that good patience, so the clock is ticking.
Tick tock, tick tock."
Without giving it a single thought, I tossed the letter away and started to run but I was stopped by a hand grabbing my arm. I looked at Ai who still had the same expression as before and her grip was too hard.
"Ai, let me go," I said to her but she did not let go. "Some vampires have Natsumi-san as a hostage and I need to go."
As soon as Natsumi-san’s name came out of my mouth, I saw Ai’s expression changed immediately. Still not letting go of my arm, Ai grabbed the letter falling down slowly in her hands, and started reading it quickly. Her eyes widened as she read the content of the letter and her grip further tightened on my hand.
No, please don’t.
"You cannot go there Kazu-kun," Ai said to me not letting go.
"No, Ai I have to go. Natsumi-san is in danger and it is because of me. There is no way I will not go. You know it too Ai," I said and my voice sounded desperate.
"But Kazu-kun, it can be a bluff too. What if they are just bluffing to bring you out in the night?"
"What if it is not?" I said and quickly went and picked up my phone and dialed Natsumi-san’s number.
It rang and rang and rang but she did not pick up.
I heard the door being locked up and looked at Ai standing there with her back leaning against it. No, you are not supposed to do this.
I took off my apron and walked towards the door but Ai was obstructing my path.
"Ai, please step aside," I said to her in a normal voice but I was desperate. Ai on the other hand did not move at all. "I said step away!" I shouted this time.
"No Kazu-kun, I cannot let you go. I will go and get sensei back and you can stay here," she said to me with her hand holding the doorknob.
"Ai," my voice dropped and darkened. "I am asking this one last time, step aside."
I clenched my fist holding it in. My head started feeling hot and so did my body. My heart started beating at an abnormal pace and my breathing was getting uneven. I have stopped myself for so many years and I cannot lose control a second time. Please don’t let me lose control Ai.
"I will not step aside," Ai said clenching her fist and I saw an angry expression on her face. "I get that you care about her but why are you so desperate? I am the only one who you need to act like that for then why is she getting the same treatment?"
"Ai, don’t. This has nothing to do with it."
I felt anger welling up in me. Why is she even saying this?
"No, it does. When you first found out I was a half-vampire, you begged me to save sensei first and not you. Even now you are ready to go and save her but you know that don’t you?" Ai said and then dropped the bomb. "You are weak, you cannot do anything. What do you think that they will do when you go there? They will kill you and then kill sensei too. Vampires are greedy beings and they won’t let more food go just like this."
While she was saying the harsh truth hoping to stop me but it did not work.
"So you are coming with me, then what is wrong with it?" I started sounding worked up.
"I can kill them but we don’t know how many there are or anything. If you go there you won’t be nothing more than a liability," she said gritting her teeth.
"But I cannot just stand here and do nothing!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, blood dripping from my hand.
"That is the only thing you can do."
I have had enough.
I moved forward and a sudden surge of electricity flowed through my blood and I shoved Ai aside with force. Her head hit the wall and she fell down immediately and the impact was a lot louder than I thought. I saw blood flowing out of her head where she lay there and immediately, I came back to my sense.
I looked at my hands and they started trembling.
It’s happening again.
Clicking my tongue, I opened the door and rushed out. I had no control over myself right now. Not like before and on instinct, I jumped from the window and started falling down. At this height, if I fall, I will be dead but it was as if my body was knowing what it was doing but I had no idea about it.
As soon as my feet touched the ground, my legs bent and I absorbed the entire impact easily creating a small crater. The people around me got startled and looked at me weirdly but I had no time for them.
My legs were on fire right now and I ran at my full speed to where I was supposed to go. I occasionally bumped into multiple people making them fall down and curse me as I just ran past them. I had a nerve popping up on my forehead and my teeth were grinding against each other.
Ah kill me already, why does this have to happen after fourteen years?
I thought I had it under control.
After what I did at home, I am sure I won’t be able to see eye to eye with Ai. Forget that, I need to get to Natsumi-san right now.
Right now, I had lost all rationality and looked really desperate.
I am going to regret this later so much.
Even after all this running, I did not feel breathless and I zoomed past everyone breaking every single traffic law in the history of traffic laws running to the warehouses in the Tokyo port. While running, I felt a weird feeling of someone chasing me down but I did not turn around to see that.
Soon, I felt a weight on my body pressing me down. I was in an empty street and the weight on my body was really not much, but the owner was really strong. I cold hand was holding my neck and my head started bleeding due to the impact. I started struggling to get out of the grip of the person but they were too strong.
"Stop struggling," a cold voice said to me and I looked up but my face was pressed down again.
"Ai, let me go," I said struggling and tears started falling down my eyes. "Please, I beg you," I sobbed.
"You won’t get away like this. I’m sorry Kazu-kun," she said and I felt her raise her hand.
"Don’t!" I shouted and stood up quickly throwing Ai off me.
I turned around to see her and she was on her back and wincing in pain.
I felt all the anger and negative feelings in me just vanish seeing Ai wince in pain. Now another feeling took over me which was worry. With trembling arms, I ran towards Ai and picked her up and I saw that she had hurt her head yet again. Because of me.
"Ai, Ai," I called out to her and she grunted in pain. "Look, I am so sorry for doing this, I did not intend to hurt you but you kept stopping m-"
"Why?" Ai said interrupting me and looked at me with a sad look on her face. "Why did you go so far just for sensei? So far to even hurt me. Does she matter to you so much more than me?"
"No, no, that is definitely not it. You matter to me more than anything. I am so sorry for this," I said and tears started falling from my eyes. My hands were trembling even more. "I really did not intend to hurt you it was just…just…Look, sit up and we can go to Natsumi-san together."
"Why are you still worrying about her in this situation?!" Ai shouted and I saw the anger on her face.
"She is the only family I have left and there is no way I can let her get hurt. You understand it, don’t you Ai?"
"I don’t…" Ai said and I saw some tears in her eyes. "…I don’t understand it Kazu-kun. I was supposed to be the only one you care about. I was supposed to be the only person you should worry about. Maybe I should have…"
What am I doing?
I feel so stupid.
No one knows this at all but I have a condition where I can get really angry and lose control of my actions and can get violent too. It was something that only happened once before and so kept that all to myself. I was only two years old at that time and what I did was beyond forgivable.
I killed.
My own younger sister.
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